DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transbase

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gridgain.com

www.openpie.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

OpenPie

Sybase, SAP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2007

1993

1987

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.1, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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